The Seamaster family celebrates its 70th Anniversary this year, we take a look at two new watches inspired by some of the very earliest to carry the name.

by James Buttery

To celebrate 70 years of the Seamaster family in 2018, Omega has released a brace of watches directly inspired by some of the first watches released using that famous name.
The Seamaster collection, Omega?s first family of watches, came about in the post-war years as the brand sought out a civilian application for the horological technology it had developed during the Second World War, when it had delivered around 110,000 watches to the Ministry of Defence.

While the watches were well received by servicemen, Omega upped its game by offering even greater water resistance in its civilian watches than it had done during the war years thanks to the development of an O-ring gasket.
These modern reissues ? both watertight to 60m – are exceptionally close to the original duo and both models, a Small Seconds and an ever-so-slightly slimmer Central Second, share the same highly polished, perfectly proportioned stainless steel case with flat bezel and glass box sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. Unlike last year’s Omega 1957 Trilogy, which were 1:1 reproductions, these pieces are larger than their forebears.
If you concentrate on the crystal keenly enough you?ll find a surprise in miniature, the Omega symbol engraved into the sapphire just above the central axis of the hands. It would ap...